A Letter to A. D. Tsyurupa with a Draft Resolution for the All-Russia Central Executive Committee and a Note to the Members of the Politbureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.)

Written:Written 28 and 30 November, 1921Published:First published in part in 1933 inLenin Miscellany XXIII.

      Published in full in 1964 in the Fifth Russian Edition of theCollectedWorks, Vol. 44.

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      Progress Publishers,1971,

      Moscow,Volume 42,

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ComradeTsyurupa,

Myplan has matured:

Inaddition to the post of Deputy Chairman of the Council

ofLabour and Defence held by Rykov (with the right of casting vote in
the Council of People’s Commissars) the post of second deputy chairman of
the C.L.D. is instituted on equal terms. Tsyurupa is appointed to this post
and released from the Food Commissariat.

Therights of these deputies: a casting vote in the C.P.C. and theC,L.D.;the chairing of the meetings in the absence of the
chairman. All the rights of C.P.C. chairman as far as participation in all
boards and institutions is concerned, and (inter alia) the right to give
instructions in regard to the practical work (subject to immediate
execution) to People’s Commissars and to members of their boards,
etc. (with the knowledge and consent of the commissars of the government
departments concerned) onquestions pertaining to the integration and
directionof the economic commissariats’ activities.

Thatis how I conceive the official decision of theAll Russia
Central Executive

Committee.[1]

Thetask is to integrate and improve theeconomic workAS A
WHOLE, especiallyin connection with and through the State Bank(trade) and theState Planning Commission.

Tomake afirst-handstudy of the specific features and work
of all the economic commissariats and an acquaintance withall the
members oftheir boards and a number (10-100) of local and regional
top workers in this field.

Topersonallyattendimportantboard meetings of the
respective commissariats, the State Planning Commission, the State Bank,
Centrosoyuz,etc. and checkpersonally,at the choice of the Deputy Chairmen of the C.L.D., those functions which
are considered most vital or of special topicality.

Forhow long these posts will be, “we shall see”: perhaps 3-4 years,
perhaps 30 years.

Oneof the objects is to develop a highly trained type of
instructor-inspector to check andorganiseall economic work at
all economic institutions centrally and locally.

Thedeputy chairmen conduct their workthrough the apparatusof the existing commissariats, having only the Managing Department of the
C.L.D. as their own body (4-5 C.L.D. business managers with 1-2 assistants
and 1-2 secretaries to each assistant).

Thebusiness manager of the C.L.D., his assistants and secretaries form
thesolesingle staff of theC.L.D.as a whole and of
both its deputy chairmen.

Letme have your reply not later thanWEDNESDAY.Return this.

With communist greetings,Lenin

Tomembers of the Politbureau: I have received A.D. Tsyurupa’s consent
tothis tentativeplan and ask all the members of the Politbureau
to read it. I want to put it before the Politbureau tomorrow, 1.XII.

[1]Thispart of Lenin’s letter was a draft for the Pclitbureau. The
latter’s decision, adopted on December 1, 1921, on Lenin’s report, stated
that “Comrade Tsyurupa shall be relieved of the post of People’s Commissar
for Food and appointed Second Deputy Chairman of the C.L.D with a casting
vote in the C.L.D. and the C.P.C., the appointment to be endorsed by the
Presidium of the A.C.E.C.” (Central Party Archives of the Institute of
Marxism-Leninism of the C.C. of the C.P.S.U.). A similar wording was used
in the decision of the A.C.E.C. confirming the appointment of
A. D. Tsyurupa to the post of Second Deputy Chairman of the C.L.D. (seeIzvestia No.272, December 3, 1921).